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Yabia, tell me one aspect of yiddishkeit that you are missing out on (besides the mitzvah to know the entire torah) if all you learn is divrei chazal?
Tanach is not the “basis” of yiddishkeit; mesorah and torah shebaal peh are. Without that, we have books that we don’t understand and commandments that are incomprehensible.
Chavivin divrei sofrim midivrei Torah.
Do yourself a favor. Take off the knit fabric, open a sefer besides a blank tanach, and see what kind of yiddishkeit is presented by its torch bearers. learn mesilas yeshorim, chovoa halevavos. The baalei mussar, maybe some chasidus. Learn the depth of Torah, not stories about people you think you have some grasp of.
It’s like the chasam sofer said, people who emphasize tanach (besides taimanim, thsy have a strong mesorah for this) minimize its importance, because they think they understand things and that the people of tanach were just simple people like us.